In botany, a whorl or verticil is a whorled arrangement of leaves, sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels that radiate from a single point and surround or...

botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well...

In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone...

or reflections. Patterns in nature Phyllotaxis Symmetry in biology Whorl (botany) Craene 2010, p. 25. Zimmerman, Erin (26 October 2020). "Asymmetry allows...

whorls may or may not be decussate, rotated by half the angle between the leaves in the whorl (i.e., successive whorls of three rotated 60°, whorls of...

A spikelet, in botany, describes the typical arrangement of the flowers of grasses, sedges and some other monocots. Each spikelet has one or more florets...

pseudanthium was originally applied to flowers with stamens in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals (obdiplostemonate) or polyandric flowers;...

distinct whorl of a plant structure. The term is most commonly used in the context of a flower where it refers to the number of sepals in a whorl of the...

to scale-like leaves arranged in whorls of 5 to 20 around the branchlets. The branchlets are segmented at each whorl with deep furrows that conceal the...

Collectively, the sepals are called the calyx (plural: calyces), the outermost whorl of parts that form a flower. The word calyx was adopted from the Latin calyx...